ਵਰਤੁ ਨੇਮੁ ਨਿਤਾਪ੍ਰਤਿ ਪੂਜਾ, ਬਿਨੁ ਬੂਝੇ ਸਭੁ ਭਾਉ ਹੈ ਦੂਜਾ
वरतु नेमु निताप्रति पूजा, बिनु बूझे सभु भाउ है दूजा
Varat naym nitaaparat poojaa. bin boojhay sabh bhaa-o hai doojaa.
Without genuine understanding, all fasts, religious rituals and daily worship services lead only to the love of duality.
In this line above of Third Patshahee, He reveals us what is True devotion. First of all, He says, without genuine understanding of the one True devotion, all fasts, religious rituals and daily outer practices are all false, which produce nothing positive in us, but rather keep us blind in agyanta of maya.
So naturally, the question may arise in our minds, what is then that genuine understanding?
The Bani clearly tells us: Awar Kaaj tere kiteh na kam, mil Sadh Sangat bhaj kewal Naam.
Many of us say, let me do these things (rituals)first, then only once prepared will I do His simran....
This is like a sick person saying: let me get well first, then only will I take the medicine....
We may laugh at this statement, but it is our present poor condition.
The malady, the sickness, the filth is in our mind, it is something subtle, which can not be washed or erased by anything made out of the 5 elements. Just as mud can not be washed with mud. It has to be something much subtler, and beyond them.
And beyond them, is only Wahiguru Akal Purukh, and His power of Naam.
Thus His Simran, is always the short cut and one in all medicine recomemded by our Guru Sahibans and Gurmukhs, to cure us from our vikars, our past sanskaras, our countless sins, and to defeat the mind and Yam Kal, also.
Sat Sree Akal.
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